Quote: “There’s no ego between any of us. Whoever has a fight coming up, we are all like your slave, pretty much. ... It’s not like it’s all about one person. It’s all about whoever’s got something coming up.”

Editor’s Note: The MMA fighters who have come to be known as The Four Horsewomen — Ronda Rousey, Marina Shafir, Jessamyn Duke, and Shayna Baszler – have formed a rock-solid sisterhood. They challenge and encourage each other as they navigate their careers. This is Part Four of a special project highlighting how their paths have merged: The Four Horsewomen.

At the top of the mountain resides Ronda Rousey.

This is her faction, her lair, her doing.

And no one has second-guessed it for a second.

“Where else would I rather be? I’m learning so much,” Jessamyn Duke said.

THE FOUR HORSEWOMEN

As for the makeup of The Four Horsewomen group, everyone brings something to the table.

When asked how to define everyone, Rousey puts it this way — as only she can.

“Marina [Shafir] is like the level-headed mommy, the reasonable one. And then I would say that Jessamyn is like the sweet, cuddly, always-in-a-good-mood one. She’s the one you randomly walk up to and hug in the house,” she said. “And then Shayna [Baszler] is our navigator of Reddit. We all just sit around the TV and watch Shayna surf Reddit and we laugh our asses off together. And she’s definitely more like the showman of everybody. She’s very much the entertainer of the group.”

Rousey has deemed herself the slob of the bunch, dirty dishes and clothes in her wake.

But she’s also the king of the pride, defender of the lionesses.

“I feel like they do all the work and I just eat everything that they just bring and prepare for me,” Rousey said. “And if anyone messes with them, I’ll rip off their face. And that’s my job.”

The truth is, there is nothing Rousey requires or wants from them.

Baszler says the depth of gratitude for Rousey is impossible to quantify.

“It can’t be measured what she’s done for us. You can’t make a list of things she’s bought or something like that,” Baszler said. “It’s not a measurable thing. It’s the opportunities she’s given us.”

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Shafir sums up The Four Horsewomen as “a beautiful thing that happened.”

“They’re my sisters. They’re my teammates,” she said. “I’d take a bullet for those girls.”